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Amazon Moves S3 Performance Increase Development Into Beta-Testing

We all have our favorite Web-based destinations. Facebook. MySpace. YouTube. iTunes. Mashable. The list goes on. And on. And on.

And we’ve got all sorts of reasons we like ‘em. Some are informative. Some are entertaining. Others we just find absolutely essential for everyday life. For many people, social networks have come to play a central role in the day’s routine. Wake up, log in. Go to work/school, log in. Eat lunch, read the friend feed. Go home— You get the idea.

Suffice it to say that a sizable portion of us uber-connected folk constantly rely on the troves of data – and the critical services which supply that data – stored out in the cloud. So it’s always a good thing when we hear of advancements made that directly affect the way we interact with those services.

Amazon says it’s only going so far as to start “beta-testing” for a networking feature it has had in development, but this message of an impending upgrade to S3 is something a wide range of Internet businesses can certainly look forward to as they build up their own services; which, if history proves correct, will likely require the transfer of more bits to more clients at faster speeds.

And faster speeds are crucial in making Web applications work as smoothly as those based locally on one’s hard drive – or as smoothly and quickly as is possible.

So, all in all, we’re feeling rather bullish about this revelation. And we imagine many Web developers privy to this information feel exactly the same way.

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